The Crooked Carpet Cleaner w/ Ronnie Adrian (Fraud Friday)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Fraud Friday, Laci is joined by comedian and actor Ronnie Adrian (Grand Crew, EverythingNowShow) to explore the absolute mess of carpet-cleaning Ponzi schemer Barry Jay Minkow, who got his career as a con man started early in his youth. Plus, in Scammer of the Week, we meet Bruce Bagley, a 73-year-old International Studies professor who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 02/03/2020) Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Research by Sharilyn Vera SOURCES: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Minkow https://news.sky.com/story/international-money-laundering-expert-arrested-for-money-laundering-11864982

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0:00.0	What's popping, congregation?
0:02.5	It's your girl Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:05.0	Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays, where we release older episodes from the
0:11.6	scam goddess Vault.
0:13.0	That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes from behind
0:16.8	the paywall.
0:18.1	Enjoy this episode from behind the paywall.
0:20.3	And as always, stay scheming.
0:23.0	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:31.7	Scams, cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:40.0	Scam goddess.
0:42.0	Welcome back, congregation, to another edition of scam goddess.
0:46.6	It's me, your girl, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:52.0	And I'm here with, oh gosh, I'm so excited excited guys oh I know I say that every week but I
0:57.5	really am excited and this is going to be a fascinating episode for sure I'm here with oh my
1:03.0	god Ronnie Adrian yes I had to do that yeah what's up everybody not the person who
1:10.6	actually makes the beats by the way I want you all to be like, oh, shit, she got him on there? I got, oh, my God, Ronnie on the show. No, just go with it, Ronnie. Go with the scam. Oh, man. All right, so how the show works is I start with a segment called What's Hot and Fraud, which is where we warn our listeners about what's hot and fraud, or we give them tips for scams.
1:36.8	Guys, if you have any scams that do've retired, hit us up at ScamGottispot at gmail.com, but only if they're retired.
1:44.7	Because remember, say it with me.
1:46.3	We don't want to fuck up your back.
1:48.5	All right.
1:49.0	Wonderful.
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